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                <p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_BodyText">To paste what is in the buffer either as a new element or as a hyperlink to the element, select the </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">Edit | Paste Element(s)</span><span class="f_BodyText"> menu option.</span></p>
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<td width="952" bgcolor="#f7f7ff" style="width:952px; background-color:#f7f7ff;"><p class="p_TiporNoteText"><span class="f_TiporNoteText">You can paste images from the Enterprise Architect Clipboard or the MS Windows clipboard. The Enterprise Architect clipboard takes precedence, so you must clear that clipboard before you can paste from the MS Windows clipboard.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="183" style="width:183px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-weight: bold;">as Link&nbsp; [Shift]+[Insert]</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="482" style="width:482px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Paste the element in the buffer </span><span class="f_Tabletext"><a href="pastingfromthetree.htm">as a link</a></span><span class="f_Tabletext"> (that is, a reference) to the element.</span></p>
<p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">If there are images in the MS Windows clipboard and none in the Enterprise Architect clipboard, you can:</span></p>
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<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1">Paste an image from the MS Windows clipboard into a new element as the appearance of the new element or</span></li>
<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1">Paste an image from the MS Windows clipboard into the diagram as a new boundary's appearance.</span></li>
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<td valign="top" width="183" style="width:183px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-weight: bold;">as New&nbsp; [Ctrl]+[Shift]+[V]</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="482" style="width:482px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Paste the element in the buffer as a completely </span><span class="f_Tabletext"><a href="pastingfromthetree.htm">new</a></span><span class="f_Tabletext"> element.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="183" style="width:183px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-weight: bold;">Paste Image from Clipboard</span><br>
<span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-weight: bold;">[Ctrl]+[Shift]+[Insert]</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="482" style="width:482px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Paste the element in the Enterprise Architect Clipboard into the same diagram or a different diagram, as a metafile (that is, a definition of the element) as many times as is necessary.</span></p>
<p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">If you paste the element into a different diagram, the classifier identifies the source diagram for the element.</span></p>
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